Between the flowers and the middle path went the seeds for that wonderful salad garden; all the things Mrs. Brown had named to Margery were there. Margery had never seen anything so cunning as the little round lettuce-seeds. They looked like tiny beads; it did not seem possible that green lettuce leaves could come from those. But they surely would.英文原著 · 《How To Tell Stories To Children》
``Nice tongue samwich, suh? Nice lettuce samwich, lady?'' he could be heard vociferating-- perhaps a little too much as if he had sandwiches for sale. ``Lemme jes' lay this nice green lettuce samwich on you' plate fer you,英文原著 · 《Seventeen》
The HAIRY or RED WILD LETTUCE (L. hirsuta), similar to the preceding, but often with dark reddish stem, peduncles, and tiny flower-cups, the ray florets varying from yellow to pale reddish or purplish, has longer leaves, deeply cut or lobed almost to the wide midrib. After what we learned when studying the barberry and the prickly pear cactus, for example, about plants that choose to live in dry soil, it is not surprising to find that this is a lower, less leafy, and more hairy plant than the moisture-loving tall lettuce.英文原著 · 《WILD FLOWERS》
"`Oh,' said Eunice, `we must send for some oil and vinegar! This lettuce is very nice.'英文原著 · 《Beauty and The Beast》
Ye get similar to the lettuce--eaters the poetry-books speaks about. Ye forget the elevated sintiments of life, such as patriotism, revenge, disturbances of the peace and the dacint love of a clane shirt. Ye do your work, and ye swallow the kerosene ile and rubber pipestems dished up to ye by the Dago cook for food. Ye light your pipeful, and say to yourself, "Nixt week I'll break away," and ye go to sleep and call yersilf a liar, for ye know yell never do it.'英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
"''Twas that way I thought, mesilf, at first,' Halloran says, with a big sigh, 'until I got to be a lettuce-eater. The fault's wid these tropics. They rejuices a man's system. 'Tis a land, as the poet says, "Where it always seems to be after dinner." I does me work and smokes me pipe and sleeps. There's little else in life, anyway. Ye'll get that way yersilf, mighty soon. Don't be harborin' any sentiments at all, Clancy.'英文原著 · 《Cabbages and Kings》
- Uh, fresh, crispy lettuce... - Butter lettuce. a sauce delivered from heaven...美剧 · 《Modern Family》